Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 17:04:04 -0400 (EDT) From: James FitzGibbon <james@nexis.net> To: Scott Blachowicz <scott@statsci.com> Cc: Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu>, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, freebsd-ports@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/3936: perl 5.004_01 is already available Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970624170322.6469C-100000@nexis.net> In-Reply-To: <m0wgcdm-0006uMC@apple.statsci.com>
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On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Scott Blachowicz wrote:
> OK...so the main thing I was wondering was if individuals should have the
> ability to locally override the perl command that gets used. If so, then
> something that is locally overrideable (e.g. a symlink in /usr/local/bin/, a
> make variable assignment from /etc/make.conf, whatever) should be used for the
> final word on the perl program name...
>
> PERL5_PROG ?= perl5.00401
> BUILD_DEPENDS+= ${PERL5_PROG}:${PORTSDIR}/lang/perl5
> RUN_DEPENDS+= ${PERL5_PROG}:${PORTSDIR}/lang/perl5
But what if a module *requires* a particular version of perl to build ?
Surely the depends is for the port creator to decide, not the user
installing.
--
j.
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